Monday, 8 April 2013

RED KITE IN THE MORNING

Last week at Samphire Hoe,the action was mostly at sea with gannets feeding off shore along with red throated divers,great cested grebes, and a lingering shag.The bluethroat showed up after lunch in the bramble patches near the car park.
Sunday morning on the cliffs brought a few yellowhammers and corn buntings and a red kite floated by on the breeze,the assumed male raven is still working hard providing food for the family.kittiwakes are back on the nest sites and continue the easterly movement towards St Margarets and beyond.

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

GANNETS GALORE

RED THROATED DIVER with a large fish which was eventually swallowed

RTD moulting into breeding plumage

SHAG

SUNNY SUNDAY about time too.

FAT YELLOWHAMMER- LOTS OF BREAD AND LOTS OF CHEESE?

LITTLE BIT OF BREAD &NO CHEESE

We tried to attract the attention of two fellahs looking for peregrines as the kite floated behind them,but to no avail.

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born and bred in Dover, educated at Dover grammar school, early interest in all sports , nature and steam trains. I lived very close to the railway line at Tower Hamlets. On leaving school I found a career in local govt as a building inspector working at Dover, Ashford and Shepway councils, retiring after forty years service in 2006. I played football in the kent amateur league for crabble athletic, cricket for dover cosmopolitans, and late in life discovered the joys of rugby playing for Dovers lower sides into my forties.
I have two sons Colin and Philip[packet]and am in a relationship with Cathy.
Birdwatching began seriously in my late teens when Spud Taylor introduced me to the song of the willow warbler , terns at sandwich bay, redshanks and snipe at stodmarsh and shelduck at nagden and apart from when rugby became all consuming I have been a birder ever since. Since retiring I have spent most of my time wandering around East Kent watching and now photographing birds and butterflies. I am a volunteer ranger at Samphire
Hoe on a tuesday where my claim to fame is finding a hoopoe in august 2009.